4 September 2012 IPG Photonics acquires JPSA IPG Photonics Corporation of Oxford,MA,USA has acquired privately held New Hampshire,USA-based J.P.Sercel Associates Inc(JPSA),a supplier of UV excimer and diode pumped solid ...
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Canadian firm Meaglow has made a breakthrough on a low temperature Migration Enhanced Afterglow film growth technique to produce a thick InGaN layer with strong yellow emission, for increasing the efficiency and lowering production costs of ...
4 September 2012 Wafer-scale transfer of III-Vs to silicon preparing for low-cost manufacturing Researchers based in the Republic of Ireland,Northern Ireland and the USA have developed a wafer-scale method to integrate III-V devices with ...
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The Institute of Physics(IoP)is to celebrate 50 years of the laser diode at the University of Warwick later this month. "In October 1962,four papers were submitted for publication reporting the realisation of the first lasers operating in ...
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US Navy details$110M laser weapon call 04 Sep 2012 Sees modular open-systems approach as best way to develop a directed-energy laser gun with a maximum 150 kW output. Maritime Laser A 100 kW laser weapon could be used on board a US ...
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JPSA Laser snapped up by IPG Photonics 04 Sep 2012 Fiber laser company expands presence in fine-processing market with acquisition of the laser micromachining systems vendor. IPG Photonics,the Massachusetts-based company that has ...
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Florida team sets new ultrashort pulse record 04 Sep 2012 Laser pulse lasting just 67 attoseconds improves on previous best of 80 attoseconds set by German team in 2008. Ultrafast worker:UCF's Zenghu Chang A new tool to watch quantum ...
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Lexmark has announced the closure of its struggling inkjet division, with 550 workers in its head office Kentucky plant set to lose their jobs. The layoffs include 350 full-time employees, many in non-manufacturing jobs such as research ...
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Taiwan's manufacturers of machine tools,most of which are small or medium in size,have experienced substantial sales growth following the global financial crisis of 2009.Their exports grew a further 9.4%in the first half of 2012,to US$2.09 ...
Quick reaction to market fluctuations and flexible manufacturing capabilities have helped many Taiwanese manufacturers of machining centers to escape the impact of economic recession in major markets.Those markets include mainland ...
Meaglow Ltd of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada – a privately held firm that produces a range of epitaxy equipment and MBE and MOCVD accessories, as well as providing specialized thin films to research institutes and industry - says that ...
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Winner:LANL's George Kyrala Six high-energy laser researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory(LLNL)and a seventh from Los Alamos National Laboratory(LANL)have won the American Physical Society's 2012 John Dawson Award for ...
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Professor Anders Larsson of Sweden's Chalmers University of Technology is one of 61 university professors in 46 institutions worldwide selected from more than 500 proposals for a 2012 HP Labs Innovation Research Award.He has been awarded ...
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Lexmark International has exited the inkjet printer business and is laying off 1,700 people as part of a restructuring plan to improve profitability. Lexmark's restructuring will result in job cuts mainly tied to the inkjet ...
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Innolume GmbH of Dortmund,Germany,which manufactures quantum-dot(QD)diode lasers covering the 1064–1320nm spectrum,has launched the next generation of its LD-12XX-series laser diode. While keeping output characteristics the ...
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